DUNHAM ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SCAS

July 23, 2001

Valgene
L. Dunham, dean of the College of Natural and Applied
Sciences at Coastal Carolina University, has been elected president of
the South Carolina Academy of Science (SCAS).

Founded in 1924, SCAS is a state-wide interdisciplinary science
organization designed to stimulate the creative abilities of science
faculty and students and provide opportunities for the presentation of
research results. Its membership includes college and high school
students, teachers, professors, scientists, institutions of higher
education and financial institutions. Each year, SCAS sponsors an
annual meeting at which South Carolina college and university faculty
and students present research papers. The organization also sponsors
the Junior Academy of Science for high school students and the Middle
and Elementary School Academy of Science. SCAS also co-sponsors, with
the Governor's Office and the South Carolina Commission on Higher
Education, the Governor's Award for Excellence in Science.

Dunham joined the Coastal faculty in 1995. He earned a bachelor's
of science degree in general science in 1962 from Houghton College in
Houghton, N.Y., and earned a master's degree in general science in 1965
and a Ph.D. in botany in 1969, both from Syracuse University in
Syracuse, N.Y. He also conducted post-doctoral research from 1969 to
1973 at Purdue University. Prior to joining Coastal, Dunham was a
professor of biology and head of the Department of Biology at Western
Kentucky University in Bowling Green. He also served on the board of
the Kentucky Academy of Science and was director of the Kentucky Junior
Academy of Science from 1992 to 1995.

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